Compulsive 999 caller given suspended sentence

A woman who made false claims to gardaí of murder, shooting, stabbing, house fires and of being with an abandoned baby has been given a two-and-a-half-year suspended sentence.

Ann Lynch (aged 38) with a current address at Fortlawn Avenue, and who formerly lived in a caravan at Whitestown Avenue, Blanchardstown had a history of ringing the 999 emergency number.